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What you have had is bad enough

“A person can drown in six inches of water, it doesn’t matter if someone else is drowning in ten feet! you’re both still fucking drowning!” You can be assured that someone out there has it worse. You can also be assured that what you have had is bad enough. Please take care of yourself the […]

May 6, 2023

Tumblr @enbygesserit you can't oppression olympics your way out of how your trauma affected you. "other people had it worse" bitch! I don't care! just from looking at you it's plain and obvious that you've had a time of it! a person can drown in six inches of water, it doesn't matter if someone else is drowning in ten feet! you're both still fucking drowning! show yourself a little bit of compassion before I come over there and do it for you. this is a threat this especially applies to all the people in the tags saying it applies to everyone else but them. sorry

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“Protecting children from irreversible bodily changes”

@fandomsandfeminism:Only about 2% of high school athletes are awarded ANY sports scholarship to college. This idea that sports, especially lucrative and dangerous high school football, are some wonderful godsend that will propel underprivileged kids to a better life is by and far not true. I’m not saying we ban tackle football, but 1. It’s a […]

May 3, 2023

quasi-normalcy Every single person I know who did football in high school, without exception, has a chronic injury. Many regret what it's done to their knees and back, even major organs like the brain. There is no serious legislative push to ban high school football. Also, like, if you want to talk about social pressure on minors to undertake activities that will result in regrettable, irreversible damage to their bodies: No one, *ever*, tried to persuade me to transition. My gym teacher tried to persuade me to try out for the football team almost every single day that I was in junior high. And if you had asked me, even back then, whether I would rather lose my reproductive capacity or suffer irreversible brain damage, I know that I would have chosen the former without a second's hesitation.

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The ritual magic of exercising agency

Don’t misunderstand: the fundamental problem in your life may well be “Shit Life Syndrome” due to capitalism or a health condition you can’t get treated due to capitalism and medical ableism or something else. Even “just” depression is fucking real, and it’s not your fault. You also aren’t entirely helpless, and while “just do something” […]

December 13, 2021

Tumblr @hakuteeth Not to offer advice nobody asked for but fixing ur sleep schedule is life changing @spyrogf Things that actually work if u try at them: -Drinking water -No longer making self deprecating jokes -Making sure to take time out of the day to relax and take a breather -Lighting candles -Counting ur breaths in and out if ur having a panic attack -Getting up and trying to do one thing even if u can’t do everything maybe brushing ur teeth but not having the energy to shower @chronicallysickchick Taking a shower if you can, putting clean clothes on if you can’t, even just a clean set of pjs. Washing your face.

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Memes, Ritual

Womanhood is good, expansive and resilient

Tumblr @testosteronebutchI get so frustrated when I see fellow sapphics saying that womanhood is necessarily constricting to us. Like, womanhood is so diverse and doesn’t have to be limited by the gender roles pushed on us by a heteronormative society. My butchness and masculinity don’t mean I can’t be a woman, even if I experience […]

December 7, 2021

Satanic Antifascism logo of “three arrows” with an inverted pentacle on top; the arrows are in lesbian/sapphic pride colors.

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When white supremacy trumps “male privilege”

Tumblr @doberbuttsI had the cops called on me once (on TDoV lmao) because I was in a field with Creed offleash tweaking our heeling. The woman who reported us said that there was a “black man with an aggressive dog” and that we were scaring her. There was no one in the field with us […]

November 23, 2021

@doberbutts And because I talk about intersectionality- This is why trans men are repeatedly saying we do not have male privilege in the way that is being assumed of us. Especially not trans men of color, and especially especially not black trans men. Sometimes, in some situations, I am regarded as a man. But I am always black. It is not safer to be a black man. A white woman tried to get me killed or arrested so she could run her aggressive pit bull in the field next to both of our houses. She knew who I was. She was our neighbor. I passed her several times walking Creed. Her dog was always offleash in that field and out of control when on leash walking on the street. Don’t tell me she has any right to fear me because “well you’re a man” when I have every right to fear how she is going to wield her whiteness as a weapon against me. That could have been my name on the next tagline for a week.

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You need to understand why things are harmful

Tumblr @dilfgirlI’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: it’s more important to know and understand fully why something is harmful than it is to drop everything deemed problematic. It’s performative and does nothing. People wonder why nobody has critical thinking skills and this is part of it because no one knows how to […]

May 18, 2021

Tumblr @dilfgirl I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: it’s more important to know and understand fully why something is harmful than it is to drop everything deemed problematic. It’s performative and does nothing. People wonder why nobody has critical thinking skills and this is part of it because no one knows how to [simultaneously] critique and consume media. You need to use discernment. This is ultimately why propaganda is going to work on you. Because you never learned how to think for yourself and the actual ideology behind things. You simply rely on group think and the bare minimum explanations to tell you what’s good and bad.

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AI and AM versus FM technology

It is really important to be able to spot the difference between AM versus FM technology, particularly when it comes to their promises. Actual Machine (AM) technology involves a lot of well-understood costs & challenges. It’s usually not very exciting. The solutions offered are quite obvious. Example: How do we lower traffic fatalities and provide […]

May 8, 2021

Tumblr @danshive In science fiction, AIs tend to malfunction due to some technicality of logic, such as that business with the laws of robotics and an AI reaching a dramatic, ironic conclusion. Content regulation algorithms tell me that sci-fi authors are overly generous in these depictions. “Why did cop bot arrest that nice elderly woman?” “It insists she’s the mafia.” “It thinks she’s in the mafia?” “No. It thinks she’s an entire crime family. It filled out paperwork for multiple separate arrests after bringing her in.”

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It’s time to start counting chickens

@bonecouch: “but without the profit motive people won’t work” [Archive] We need to talk about how cities will have to re-orient our infrastructure around community agriculture and animal husbandry, incorporating the knowledge that many immigrant groups and the poorest rural people already have. As it is, our food comes from far away, is produced at […]

May 3, 2021

Tumblr @deadmomjokes Y’all, I’m over here DYING cuz Google suggested me this article about the crisis of backyard chicken keepers– which is that they love having chickens so much that they keep getting more, and then don’t know what to do with all the eggs. Which I can see how this would be a problem, but it’s just so funny to me because they had interviewed this one guy who started off with 3 chickens, and then kept adding more and more, and eventually started donating the eggs to a local food bank, and at the end of the year when they wrote him a tax receipt, he discovered he’d donated over 400 dozen eggs. Seriously, it was a whole article talking very seriously about how people are so into chickens that they just keep collecting them like pokemon and then have to “scramble” (their words not mine) to get rid of the eggs, because they weren’t even thinking of egg production, they just loved having chickens. And while I may be over here laughing a bit too hard, honestly? Big Mood. @bonecouch “but without the profit motive people won’t work”

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A better world is possible — but not by following the rules

Tumblr @hater-of-terfsStuff like guerilla gardening, stickering, wheatpasting, lifting, graffiti, pothole-filling and other minor illegal acts aren’t only important for their primary effects, but because disobeying your capitalist programming helps break down the internalized worldview that comes with it You start seeing society as it is: a collection of flawed, limited, man-made institutions that can be […]

January 7, 2021

Punk anarchist Baphomet with top surgery scars throwing a Molotov cocktail that was lit by their cigarette. Arms have tattoos of queer communism, satanic antifascism, and squatters symbol as well as usual "solve" and "coagula"

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Deradicalization is not a speaking tour

“That’s all in the past; I’m different now,” is really only relevant to your subjective self. It may be good that you have found your essence has changed. It can be helpful to think yourself moved out of one category and into another. To the rest of us, though, all we have access to are […]

December 21, 2020

Tumblr @primordial-fungus-monolith: "I'm not joking when I say that deradicalization should necessarily come with you providing some sort of material aid to the people you hurt"

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